Screen Use Time and Its Association With Mental Health Issues in Young Adults in India: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

Swasti Deshpande   ^{1, 2} , MBBS ;   Ashmeet Sachdev   ¹ , MBBS ;   Anwesha Maharana   ^{1, 3} , BSMS ;   Siddhesh Zadey   ^{1, 4, 5, 6} , MSGH ;   Surabhi P Dharmadhikari   ¹ , MBBS ;   Swati Ghate   ⁷ , MBBS, DCH, PGDAP, MA ;   Pawankumar Godatwar   ⁸ , BAMS, MD, PhD ;   Nisha Kumari Ojha   ⁹ , BAMS, PDCR, MD, PhD ;   Sanjeev Sharma   ¹⁰ , BAMS, MD, PhD

¹ Association for Socially Applicable Research, Pune, India

² Department of Pediatrics, Good Samaritan University Hospital, West Islip, NY, United States

³ Centre for Mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

⁴ Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India

⁵ GEMINI Research Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States

⁶ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

⁷ Babylon’s Newton Institute of Child and Adolescent Development, Jaipur, India

⁸ Department of Roga & Vikriti Vijnana, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, India

⁹ Department of Kaumarbhritya-Balroga, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, India

¹⁰ National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, India